In Japan, twitter becomes more common as before.
Some media begin to tweet their news article, and some artists and celebrities tweet their daily lives.
In Japan, a book focusing on twitter, which was published last month (Oct., 2009), hits the best-seller list.
The title is "Twitter; tweets in 140 characters change the world." (in Japanese: "ツイッター 140文字が世界を変える").
This book introduces the twitter service to Japanese people.
This book consisted of the following topics:
- A history of twitter in Japan (Chap. 1):
-- Twitter in Japan broke out twice, in 2007 and 2009.
- What is twitter (Chap. 2):
-- A brief introduction on twitter: who made twitter, why 140 chars, what is TL, RT, DM and hashtags, etc. Some sections in this chapter, twitter is compared to mixi, a Japanese social networking service such as Facebook or MySpace.
- How to enjoy twitter (Chap. 3):
-- There are no specific usages for twitter, except for following and twittering. Follow some people/sources/bots, and twitter about yourself.
- Twitter in business (Chap. 4):
-- Introduction of some advanced companies that is using twitter on business.
- Twitter outlook for the future (Chap. 5):
-- One perspective for twitter in Japan.
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[preface]
- Every people makes the Internet useful. We shouldn't forget about that fact. (p. 6)
[Chap. 1: A history of twitter in Japan]
- One day, the following tweet poked up: (p. 47)
-- Found you in twitter after a long interval and followed you slyly.
-- You didn't notice that that was me. I think I can tell that this is myself to you someday.
-- Read your tweets and they reminded me of the good old days.
-- Few days after, you tweeted: "Today is my 3rd wedding anniversary."
[Chap. 2: What is twitter]
- Twitter acts as information filters. (pp. 97, 98)
[Chap. 3: How to enjoy twittering]
- When I tweeted "I'm in a bar : "Waura-Sakaba" now.", someone tweeted "May I come?". After then he came and joined with me. I was surprised that could happen with twitter. (p. 120)
[Chap. 4: Using twitter in business]
- With twitter, journalists can pass realtime information. (p. 156)
- In incunabula of the new service, the only thing we have to do is to try. (p. 166)
[Chap. 5: Twitter outlook for the future]
- A 140-character tweet in Japanese contains 3 times as much information as that in English. Therefore, twitter in Japan will evolve somewhat differently with that in English. (p. 186)
- When we send information, the information will be brushed up and come back to the sender. Keep tweeting, and your life will become affluent. (pp. 191, 205)
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